Lot 40
40
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A CHARLES X ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK

Details
A CHARLES X ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
CIRCA 1825

With the figure of Love playing the lyre to Innocence in the figure of a classically draped maiden, flanking a pedestal cast with musical trophies and swans incorporating an engine-turned dial indistinctly signed Deschamp..., with blued moon hands, the twin barrel movement with anchor escapement, with silk-suspended pendulum, countwheel strike on bell, the rectangular base cast with Cupid and Psyche, billing doves and floral swags on leaf-tip-cast base and bun feet-22in. (56cm.) high, 17in. (43cm.) wide, 6in. (15cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Two designs for this clock, depicting the allegory of Love charming Innocence with his lyre, are known to exist, both attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843). One is currently in the Whittlesley Fund of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Cat. Kansas City 1969, Nr. 76) and the other is in the collection of the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in the Masson Collection, reproduced in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Vol. I, pl. 5.18.1.